Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Delirious with or as if with strong drink; intoxicated.
- adjective Habitually drunk.
- adjective Of, involving, or occurring during intoxication.
- adjective Cooked with wine or another alcoholic beverage.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Producing intoxication, or used in manufacturing intoxicants, as certain plants—for example, the betel-nut, called
drunken date , the darnel, calleddrunken ryegrass . - Affected by or as if by strong drink; intoxicated; drunk.
- Given to drunkenness; habitually intemperate: as, he is a drunken, worthless fellow.
- Proceeding from intoxication; done in a state of drunkenness: as, a drunken quarrel.
- Acting as if drunk: applied by workmen to a screw the thread of which is uneven and produces an unsteadiness of motion in the nut.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Overcome by strong drink; intoxicated by, or as by, spirituous liquor; inebriated.
- adjective Saturated with liquid or moisture; drenched.
- adjective Pertaining to, or proceeding from, intoxication.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Drunk , in the state ofintoxication after having drunk analcoholic beverage
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol
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Examples
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Then, there was a promissory note that his son-in-law, who handles all of his business, took over to Anna Nicole, and she ripped it up in what he called a drunken rage.
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Nick and his bandmates -- sans drummer for some reason -- have just finished their set, and Nick's handling bitch duties with the equipment while the other guys are basking in drunken adoration of both boys and girls.
Rabid Reads: "Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist" by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan 2009
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Nick and his bandmates -- sans drummer for some reason -- have just finished their set, and Nick's handling bitch duties with the equipment while the other guys are basking in drunken adoration of both boys and girls.
Archive 2009-12-01 2009
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“What in the name of drunken hell is that?” says Clarence, pointing at Boland.
The Last of Boland Kilean Kennedy 2011
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I think I remember stumbling upon this truck late at night in drunken stupor and loving it.
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He was piefaced soaked squiffy sloshed and all round ‘pissed as a newt’ not just a maniac but a dispsomaniac, takwe my word for it, I am an expert in drunken gibber and that is it.
Archive 2008-01-20 Newmania 2008
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If you care to see the history of booze, and why the hell wouldn't you, then today is a day that will live in drunken infamy.
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He was piefaced soaked squiffy sloshed and all round ‘pissed as a newt’ not just a maniac but a dispsomaniac, takwe my word for it, I am an expert in drunken gibber and that is it.
Mayoral As A Newt Newmania 2008
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He was piefaced soaked squiffy sloshed and all round ‘pissed as a newt’ not just a maniac but a dispsomaniac, takwe my word for it, I am an expert in drunken gibber and that is it. (n)
Mayoral As A Newt Newmania 2008
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Obviously, it brings up interesting scenarios of landscape architects, in drunken stupors at 3 in the morning, downloading the software to design their own sinuous landforms.
Ripple Topography 2006
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Dudley believes the chimps’ consumption of alcohol in the wild supports his “drunken monkey” hypothesis, which posits that the human penchant for drink has roots in our primate ancestors’ need for energy-rich, ripe, fermented fruit.
Chimps consume equivalent of a beer a day in alcohol from fermented fruit Ian Sample 2025
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